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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on January 04, 2022, 06:28:01 PM
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Alex Marlow: TikTok Is a Chinese Weapon Pointed at American Kids to Distract Them
https://www.breitbart.com/podcast/2022/01/03/alex-marlow-tiktok-is-a-chinese-weapon-pointed-at-american-kids-to-distract-them/
Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and World Editor Frances Martel both described TikTok, a video-sharing app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, as a “foreign weapon” targeting American children and youth on Monday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast.
TikTok’s displacement of Google as the world’s most popular website, Marlow held, is illustrative of a broader displacement of America’s global position by China. He warned of TikTok and other digital apps’ capacities to obstruct personal development with time-wasting endeavors.
He remarked, “I was floored by the data that TikTok is now even more popular than Google around the world as the most popular domain. Not only is TikTok run by the Beijing Communist Party, but it’s also something that is wildly distracting, and it seems to be custom-built to distract young Americans from doing anything productive, and just to get sucked into this black hole of staring at your screen all day doing stupid stuff.”
I am not into TikTok.
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I think it's much more insidious than that.
The Chinese are not our friends. They continue to use capitalism not to better themselves and create wealth for their populace, but to center power and control. Their intent is to be the dominant culture in the world.
A great way to do this is to give kids a bright, shiny toy to play with.
Now that every kid in the U.S. must have a cell phone, this is the result. :whatever:
Remember when cell phones were supposed to be used by kids only in an emergency? How far we've strayed...
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I think it's much more insidious than that.
The Chinese are not our friends. They continue to use capitalism not to better themselves and create wealth for their populace, but to center power and control. Their intent is to be the dominant culture in the world.
A great way to do this is to give kids a bright, shiny toy to play with.
Now that every kid in the U.S. must have a cell phone, this is the result. :whatever:
Remember when cell phones were supposed to be used by kids only in an emergency? How far we've strayed...
True. Even the kids who have profiles that the 'Chinese Government' might eventually become alarmed about, are having their personal-data being amassed by the tic-tok app.